The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-15

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| the fires on the hills of East Macon district.
There is no report as to whether any loss
| resulted. Everything is very dry and there
is no means of checking the flames once they
get under good Roadway.
At Atlanta Friday William Robinson and
his wife Rachel entered a suit for - 600
damages against Jesse T. Thornton They
alege that they are old people and quite
feeble; that they lived i'll houst at 131 Ira
street, and that ON April ), when the weather
| was quite cool, Thornton who is a preacher,
went 20 the house, knocked the door in, put
out the fire, fired the old folks, bag and bag
gage and treated them to various and sundry
indignites For all of which they ask 81 900.
Some time ago it was reported to the DO
lice of Atlanta that DR.. j. i. Roughton, who
keeps drug store at 522 Decatur street, was
in the habit Of selling diluted alcohol for
| beverage, and the store has recently been
under special surveillance Wednesday
night Patrolman Moss saw a customer leave
there under suspicious circumstances.
The officer questioned him, and the latter
| said that he had half pint of diluted alco-
hol and that he bought it at the place indi-
Gated. The liquor was taken to the station
| house as evidence, and a case was made
against Dr. ROughton for violating the pro-
hibtion ordinance.
THE Villa Rica Lumber Company is the
way it reads. 1t is a new company just
formed. The capital stock is 200, with
| paid in capital of $4,000 The company
is composed of first rate business men Of At
lanta, Villa Rica and Admission. They con
troll the output of seven mills, located along
| and near the Georgia Pacific railroad. The
| principal Office is located in Villa Rica. A
| S. Johnston is president and general man
ager. They viii soon have their goods on
the market, undressed and dressed, yellow
| heart, long leaf pine and shingles They
will dress the lumber themselves when so de
sired and also kiln dry it.
At Lula Mary Hill, a noted character
from Gainesville, attempted suicide Tuesday
| afternoon by lying down on the railroad
track in front of a moving engine and cars,
| but as the engine was not moving very fast
| her life was saved by the pilot pushing her
| off the track, but she was badly hurt. C.. c.
| Hodges the agent, sent a dispatch for the
! Sheriff of Hall county, who, on ARRIVING,
| took her to Gainesville. She claims that
| certain man in Gainesville who is sailing in
| high life, was the cause of her ruin and then
cast her off, and she lay down Oh the track
! 70 kill herself and get out of her troubles.
| She also claims to have brother in Athens.
J. |. Alden and NJ. P. Higgins, who are
connected with the archaeological School of
| Worcester, Mass, are at Athens. They are
taking trip through the South, examining
her educational facilities and generally test
| ing the merits of the system by which the
| people are solving the common school ques-
| ton as well as that of higher education.
| The training school of Worcester is the model
| after which the Georgia School of Technol-
| ogy is framed, and these gentlemen, repre-
| sentatives of practical education, which is
now attracting so much attention i'll the
| South, are noting the progress which we are
| making also in this new departure. MeSsrs.
Alden and Higgins have been to Atlanta and
looked over the plans of the State school
which is now being constructed there.
w. l. Murray, who has charge of the
| commissary car of the Americas, Preston
| and Lumpkin railroad, was seriously cut in
the side by a negro woman Wednesday af-
| ternoon. A couple of negro women from
| Americas had gone out to the camps and
taken up quarters there. They had quar-
rel between themselves, and began cursing
and abusing each other roundly. Mr.. Muir
ray, to stop the trouble went up to where
they were and ordered the cursing stopped,
whereupon one of the women advanced upon
him and plunged long knife into his side
and hip three or four times. He was at once
taken to Americas and a physician sum
moned, who dressed his wounds, which
while serious are not considered fatal
/ Almost every night for the past week the
western skies have been lighted up by the
! lurid glare of the forest fires that have ragged
in the woods beyond the Muckalee, in Sum
ter county. Considerable fencing has been
destroyed by the devOuring element, but nc
dwellings or houses of any description have
been burned. A few mornings since the
large track of woodland on the Bagley place
! two miles from Americas, caught fire by
some means, and considerable loss was s1ls-
tanned in the burning of fencing and cord
; wood. The loss might have been even more
serious had it not been for the timely arrival
of several negro men ON the scene, who
finally succeeded in putting it out The fire
is supposed TO have been lighted by a tramp
VINO camped near the railroad the night be
, fore
, wednesday morning a mechanic named
Digger was arrested and locked up in Jack
, son on charge of bigamy. The facts ir
the case are that Digger went there about
fifteen months ago. His former home il
! Cincinnati, and he stood well in the commu
nifty about Jackson. He married over about
Greensboro, and some months ago theiI
, child died and the mother went to visit
Greensboro, and while there took sick anC
died Digger went back to Jackson and
went to work, and the community was con
siderably startled by the arrival of a war
rant from Cherokee county, alleging thai
Digger had wife and five children in thai
county. The queer thing about the matter
is that the parties should have waited unit
Dugger's wife's death TO arrest him. Wheth
er the case, under the peculiar circum
stances, will amount to much Is doubtful.
Lawrenceville Herald: We publish be
low a letter found at widow woman's gait
near Buford at the request of number q
citizens of Buford, who feel indignant tha
any man could be found in this county witt
no more self-respect, if he had no respect fo
a woman, than TO be guilty of writing anC
circulating such disgTaceful letter: Mrs
Polly Pucliett-Madam; We drop yol
few lines TO inform you W,
will call on you in few nights
to give YOU and son, Willie
particular, HI, for reporting stills and tear
ing up this country, you are guilty, both o
YOU, and you need not deny it, d-n you
lying souls, we are going TO play HI witt
Your ducks you will be glad to let othel
/ peoples business alone and attend to you
own when we get done with you. As fol
2 your son we are going TO swing him to tho
first limb we come TO, he will never hun
many more stills when we get through witt
, him, your waiter we expect TO treat in tn,
same way. We don't know which Of yoI
three are the meanest. Cd d-n YOU
thievish lying souls 20 HI So you may
look out, we mean business. The Boys"
FLORIDA.
w. T.. Goode has leased the SefTner lum
Der mills Of Evans & Bro.
The crop Of LiConto pears viii be very
meagre in jefferson county the present sea